Stereo.

First edition:

a. First printing:

POEMS ∣ OF ∣ WORDSWORTH ∣ CHOSEN AND EDITED BY ∣ MATTHEW ARNOLD ∣ [vignette portrait of WW from Lupton engraving from Haydon, steel engraving, lettered at bottom ‘Born 1770. (through “C. H. Jeens” in script) C. H. Jeens Died 1850.’] ∣ [script] William Wordsworth. ∣ [goth] London ∣ [rom] MACMILLAN AND CO. ∣ 1879

(15.8 × 10.3 cm): π2a8b4c2 B–X8.

[i] Golden Treasury Series device; [ii] epigraph; [iii] title, with tissue guard; [iv] imprint ‘Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh.’; [v]vi-xxvi preface; [xxvii] xxviii-xxxi contents; [xxxii] blank; [1] ‘POEMS OF BALLAD FORM’; [2] blank; [3] 4–20 text; [21] ‘NARRATIVE POEMS’; [22] blank; [23] 24–112 text; [113] ‘LYRICAL POEMS’; [114] blank; [115] 116–166 text; [167] ‘POEMS ∣ AKIN TO THE ANTIQUE ∣ AND ∣ ODES’; [168] blank; [169]170–200 text; [201] ‘SONNETS’; [202] blank; [203]204–232 text; [233] ‘REFLECTIVE AND ELEGIAC ∣ POEMS’; [234] epigraph; [235]236–312 text; [313] ‘INDEX OF FIRST LINES.’; [314] blank; [315]316–319 index, followed on 319 by conclusion notice and imprint ‘Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh.’; [320] blank. Numbers of 316–319 ‘314’ through ‘317’.

$1 sgd center foot. Type area 12.0 × 6.8 cm. Regular running heads.

Bifolium π is of moderately stiff paper.

Cloth, 4s 6d. In America, cloth, $1.25. Noted (in order of issue):

1. (750 copies.) Blackish blue fine calico texture cloth. Decorated in gilt and blind; lettered in gilt. Front cover: thick-and-thin-rule border enclosing center roundel depicting Rydal Mount, caption ‘RYDAL MOUNT’.

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